Categorize Early, Integrate Late: Divergent Processing Strategies in Automatic Speech Recognition. - Nathan Roll; Pranav Bhalerao; Martijn Bartelds; Arjun Pawar; Yuka Tatsumi; Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí; Chen Shani; Calbert Graham; Meghan Sumner; Dan Jurafsky (CoRR, 2026)